Taxing Billionaire Borrowing: A New Kind of Wealth Tax?

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Professors Edward Fox and Zachary Liscow discuss their proposal for a new tax on billionaires that would apply to borrowing against their assets.

For more, read Fox and Liscow's article, "No More Tax-Free Lunch for Billionaires: Closing the Borrowing Loophole," in Tax Notes.

For more on wealth taxes, listen to The Wealth Tax Debate.

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine School of Law Graduate Tax Program. For more information, visit law.uci.edu/gradtax.

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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jasper B. Smith, Paige Jones
Showrunner: Jordan Parrish
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Guest Relations: Alexis Hart